Science in the News
Long before Facebook made it possible to share photos of your breakfast with hundreds of
friends and let them know just how you feel about your latest parking ticket, humans were forming
social networks with essentially the same structure people use today.....
from the Los Angeles Times (Registration Required)
posted on 1/27/2012
BEIJING -- Not long after I moved to China, I learned I had a case of blocked qi. A
practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine squeezed the top of my ear and informed me that the
obstruction of my qi, or life force, was caused in part by my tendency to overthink. She also
said I had some liver stagnation and a weak heart. Until that moment, I had thought I was just
fine...
from the Washington Post (Registration Required)
posted on 1/27/2012
The Hubble space telescope's first photo of a planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting a nearby star, may
actually be "scattered dust" and not a planet, reports an astronomy team...
from USA Today
posted on 1/27/2012
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